William Windom (the President) was Commodore Decker in _TOS_ "The Doomsday Machine." Jerry Goldsmith composed the music for _Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection,_ and the themes for _Star Trek: Voyager_ and _Star Trek: The Next Generation._ Leonard Rosenman, who composed the score for _Beneath the Planet of the Apes,_ also composed the score for _Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home._ The spaceship arrival scene was shot at the same beach as the ending of the first film. Jason Evers was in _TOS_ "Wink of an Eye." The head of the Presidential Commission was also Clark's dad in _National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation._
Another Star Trek connection. James Sikking has a small part in the opening sequence (you can see him at 1:21). He would later play Captain Styles in The Search for Spock.
Hey, Ollie! I'm glad your back to these! The chimpanzee killed was "Dr. Milo", who somehow managed to recover the Icarus (Taylor's ship), put it back together, and get it off the ground. 10:10 - The guy objecting to "lawfully wedded" was a priest, who objected based on their species. 11:10 - "That's the only thing that does." - Dr. Otto Hasslien (played by soap opera star Eric Braeden). He was referred to back in the first movie during Taylor's monologue at the start of the movie. It was his "theory" about the possibility of "time dilation" causing a ship near the speed of light to pass through time. 15:10 - The word "pet" was used to describe "beautiful women" a very long time ago. Of course, it was a double-sided joke, here. But the reporter wasn't being insulting about it. 15:25 - Freeze frame that. The metal thing that the couple are flinging themselves back and forth on.... I had one of those as a kid, around the same time this movie came out. Thinking back on it, all of the dangerous toys we had back in the 70s, taught us a bit about physics, gravity, and pain, without having to read anything. =D 16:40 - Back then, women would drink while pregnant, smoke while pregnant, and some would even do drugs while pregnant. The first two, if it was "in moderation", it wasn't seen (or known) to be a bad thing. The last one.... yeah, they knew that was bad, but "addicts". 17:13 - Not sure if you noticed, but there is a small continuity error here: Zira says the year on the ship was 3950-something. When Taylor's ship crashed into the lake, it read 3978. I guess they figured with the original movie out of theaters by a few years, and the only time you would ever see it would be on television, it wasn't likely to be spotted. Plus, most people didn't look for those kinds of details. 18:30 - You'll notice, it was also the plot of the movie The Terminator. 25:00 - You forget, apes are a LOT stronger than humans. 25:55 - "She" is Natalie Trundy, who played "Albina" (the blonde mutant) in Beneath the Planet of the Apes. (minor spoiler) Aside from Roddy McDowell, she is the only other person to be in 4 of the 5 movies as different characters. 27:05 - Ollie.... the movie is rated "G", did you really expect to see some ape poontang?
@@IggyStardust1967 The continuity error involving the dates actually goes back to Beneath the POTA. And yeah, back then people weren’t able to watch movies over and over again after they came out. Planet of the Apes wasn’t even shown on television until after the fifth movie had been released. You might also notice that they retconned the origin of the rise of the apes with each movie. For instance, in the first movie, the fact that humans were the dominant species is a deep, dark secret. In Escape, Cornelius claims the ape rebellion was celebrated in their time.
@@BEBruns Apologies, I thought I had mentioned the "Beneath" part of that year discrepancy. Re-reading it, I did not. So that's on me. (But... how DARE you point out something I screwed up on! 😛😁🤣🤣) Also, you're 100% correct about the "rise" of the apes as the dominant species. I was going to mention that when Ollie does "Conquest", because "spoilers", you know. 😉 Also, we should try to get him to watch the "Project Icarus" short that was released prior to the original Apes movie as part of the "promotional" stuff. Also, I wonder if we can get him to watch "Behind the Planet of the Apes", as well. There's a more recent documentary called "Making Apes", if you haven't seen it. Well worth a watch.
@@Paul_1971 Because Brent's ship crashed on land, and was beyond flyable. Maybe some parts could be salvageable from it, but the ship itself? No chance.
@@IggyStardust1967 Um...don't you think Brent's would be more salvageable than Taylor's, being totally consumed by water and therefore ruining all the electrics? If you actually bother to look closely enough all of Brent's nosecone was intact, exactly what the 3 in Escape From turned up in.
Eric Braeden who played Dr. Hasslein survived the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff as a child. A disaster with greater loss of life than Titanic in the closing days of WW II. He was among thousands being evacuated from East Prussia ahead of the advancing Red Army. Probably intentionally ironic he discusses murdering WW II mustache guy 🥸 in this film. He later played John Jacob Aster in Titanic. He was in an often overlooked AI thriller before this film called Colossus: The Forbin Project. It is gaining new fans now with AI becoming a reality.
The reason the "Church" representative objected so loudly was because of the position the Church took on marriage at the time. This was a time before marriage equality. Gay marriage was not a thing. In some places (in the USA) interracial marriage had only recently been "legalized". Marriage among chimpanzees? That was territory the Church wouldn't even have considered, never mind the fact that these were sentient beings with high levels of understanding and social order.
Since they were only engaged in the first movie, but married in the third *and* second movie, guess who presided over their marriage. Also notice: they were to be prosecuted, at the end of the first movie, despite the assurance originally given to them that they wouldn't be ... but were free in the second movie. Guess who exonerated the two.
Technically this is a more accurate adaptation of the original novel. Ape society was more modern, the main human character was treated like a celebrity until he had to go on the run when it turned out his female companion was pregnant. It’s been suggested Milo was killed off early because his actor Sal Mineo suffered panic attacks from the clautrophobic make up he was brand new to and wanted to be written out. Although apparently a script written before his casting did have the early death scene Hasslein was vaguely mentioned in the first two movies. It was his theory of time dilation they were testing out That guy was upset at them being married because he’s a priest. Legally married animals?! Blasphemy! “The movie can’t just drop something like that so casually” Try watching the trailer. Old trailers basically used to gove away the whole movie 😂 This may have been the earliest, if not one of the earliest, instances of a piece of media having the baby Hitler suggestion Oh my god! Someone shot that orderly at the exact same time Cornelius attacked him! 😂 Yeah, Stevie’s actress Natalie Trundy is in all the sequels probably beacause she was the wife of producer Arthur P Jacobs. She played the lead female mutant Albina in Beneath. Yup, a baby gets shot in this movie! Ain’t that some shit?! This is one of the fan favorites of the sequels. It seems it is for most people Milo is gonna be named differently in the next film. They don’t explain why, though presumably because it connects back to his namesake Dr Milo, which would give him away as the true child of Zira and Cornelius Can’t wait for your reactions to the next two, especially Conquest
It’s pretty self explanatory why his name is different in the next one. Zira and Cornelius told the commission Dr Milo’s name so Armando changes baby Milo’s name so no one can make a connection between the baby and his parents.
@@residentfan1521 i mean I’ve long headcanoned basically this, but I rarely if ever hear it from anyone. Pretty much everyone says there’s no reason for it or they mistake a certain scene as the establishment of the new name. I don’t think Dr Milo is even alluded to in Conquest. If that was truly the reasoning, I would think they’d address it
@@jonmercano1138 it’s truly the reasoning. That’s the definition of self explanatory. It doesn’t need to be explained because the writers trust the audience to be smart and fill in the blanks themselves.
Hey, glad to see that you watched the third movie. This is a stepping stone movie and very important to show us how the apes were able to come/go back in time. And with the baby going on to live is the most important scene. The budget for this movie is probably the lowest of them all. There is only three apes so the make-up budget was extremely low. Also, it took place in modern day so there was no money spent on lavish primitive ape village sets and such. Also, they were able to use the original spaceship so there was no cost there either. This movie "series" is not really meant to be an action theme but a mentally stimulating SCI-FI series. You will enjoy the next two movies and I look forward to your reaction. Thanks for watching these movies.
I love your reactions to this franchise, please don't stop because this part was a bit calmer, I can also promise you there will be more action in the next parts and you will also like the endings a lot more, especially the end of the last part will show you why it's worth watching all parts to the end.
Each movie was a standalone with no future contracts and many years between. OPoTA-2 was great, but in a more planned franchise they'd have hinted the apes could have survived.
Heston’s crew didn’t have space suits like these. The premise is pretty ridiculous but I don’t care. I love when they take off their helmets, to me an iconic scene. Also it’s a sweetly made movie with a fun premise. (Until it goes south.)
They were treated like royalty by the humans compared to the way the apes treated Charleton Heston's character (Taylor) in the first movie. It was horrible and disgraceful the humiliation the apes put Taylor through in the first movie.
I'm glad you are going through the original 5. I saw them all as a young child. For me, Beneath was the least of the bunch. Escape never felt slow in parts for me. You were given a lot of important lore in this movie. Without giving spoilers, it becomes increasingly important to remember the lore as that lore is revealed. Your questions will be answered in time.
Natalie Trundy (Stevie) also played the radiated woman in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes". Bradford Dillman also played in "Piranha" (1978) - monster movie.
I love this movie! And I don't care if you don't, I care that you reacted to it! You don't have to like every movie, and your fair assessment is all I am here for, even when it's a so-so or negative review. Stay awesome
I do agree that this installment lacks the energy of the other two, but it's a necessary bridge, has interesting ideas, and of course, features the one, the only Ricardo Montalban, yes, Kahn! Hopefully you'll see more movies that feature him.
This is the installment of the franchise that I consider the most fun episode. Think of it like Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. (No, the next one is not an equivalent to The Wrath of Khan. More like the Wrath of Armando.)
Thanks Olly, for coming back to review this movie. As always, I enjoyed your review, bro. You made some good points and I learned from your review. Agreed with a lot and liked the movie slightly more. I would like to point out that this movie also had a lot to do with power, the structure of power, compliance, defiance and compliance deception. I saw them a longtime ago but believe you will like the next more. .
Not many people do the sequels, keep going!... If you have the Blu-Ray, Conquest (#4) has the original PG theatrical version and an R-Rated Director's Cut with a different ending!...Battle (#5) also has a Director's Cut...
I've seen all the five original Apes movies, but there's only three I've seen more than once (far more, if I'm honest about it). The first, this one and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. Without meaning to spoil anything, there are a fair number of references and similarities between Conquest and Rise. I think you're going to be shocked when you see it.
I rate this one below Conquest, because Conquest has a superior main character (also played by Roddy MncDowall) and I’m not a fan of the contemporary setting. Battle has its own charm but is more like a tv movie.
This is my favorite movie in the series. I can't wait for you to watch the next one. Where you are thinking about the newer timeline while watching these, I was thinking about the originals while watching the newer ones.
My memory is in several respects this is closer to the original Pierre Boulle novel than any of the adaptations, I mean if you switch the species. In the book a Frenchman lands on a space age civilization run by apes and gains some celebrity. He impregnates fellow human Nova and has to escape by space ship. It has a bit more of a darkly humorous tone, as this movie has at points, then most adaptations. Granted being closer is a bit of a mixed bag. "Planet of the Apes" is an odd novel in that it's been adapted like a dozen times but has never had a close adaptation to my knowledge. And there is some reason for that. On balance I'd say the Heston film, and maybe even the more modern Serkis film which I actually don't like as much, kind of work better than the book. The book's explanation for things feels a bit weirder or more implausible and there's a certain distance to the story which I didn't precisely mind but might be distracting in film. Still I do wish some version would keep the idea you have to learn the ape, or human in this case, language. "Rise", the Serkis one, I guess does a little but the process of learning a language isn't as much a thing. And also I kind of wish one would have the human be French. On watching your reaction I realize they may have made a fairly big change. In the original movie the idea humans were ever intelligent was kept secret. Although this is a reaction so maybe Cornelius and Zira say they got a hold of "secret scrolls" they discusses what really happened with humans but I missed that.
In 1978, four of the Apres films were played at a local cinema,.....for a children's film fest. Two a day. These are not children's films! Yet, Mom got tickets for my brother and I. The next film, was not, not part of this showing, it's more controversial - you will understand! When the blu-ray, some of the films have had parts restored for violence, as an alternative. The Modern set have been a good exploration of this world,....the TV series, in the mid-60's, it what it is.
It's one of the bleakest film series out there. 1st - Man is tortured and ends up learning humanity destroyed itself. 2nd - Everyone dies and the Universe is indifferent. (One of the bleakest movie endings ever.) 3rd - A bit lighter at first, but in the end all three of the Apes die and baby chimpanzee gets shot to death. 4 and 5 - Not watched by him yet.
@@ThomasReeves-s7u Right, allow children to see films, as most were rated G" - why PG-13 was started in mid'80's, and NC-17! Of course youth like myself would pay to see a "youth" film, and then go into the other cinema of the multiplex to see a Stephen King horror, or "the Road Warrior" when I was 13 years. I'm not too messed-up at 55 years! Yet, my Brother, and friends agree that seeing some entertainment, at a certain age can change your life.
The things that made this movie charming at the time (social criticism as fish-out-of-water) play as dreary and mild today. You can still sense the cast deserved better. Wish Sal Mineo had stuck around longer or played other apes too. He and McDowell must have had some gay stories. It's more a string of hopeful one-offs than a planned franchise at this point. Y&R fans will notice the enemy. Mr. Forbin Project.
Thanks to Oliver and Huxley! 🦧 This is my second favorite of the old ones. It sets up what's known as a *bootstrap* *paradox* as how things devolved. As you know, the new ones use a different rationale, but keep some of the important hallmarks.
There was a drive-in in Montreal in the 70's that would play all 5 of the original movies in one night.
Our indoor theater did the same thing. It cost 25cents ‼️ great fun. I think I was eleven.😅
The one thing you can say about oldschool apes as a performer. Acting with just the eyes was never better, Kim.
Yeah it must have been so much harder to act under all those prosthetics compared to the amazing movement motion capture allows us to do today
William Windom (the President) was Commodore Decker in _TOS_ "The Doomsday Machine."
Jerry Goldsmith composed the music for _Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection,_ and the themes for _Star Trek: Voyager_ and _Star Trek: The Next Generation._
Leonard Rosenman, who composed the score for _Beneath the Planet of the Apes,_ also composed the score for _Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home._
The spaceship arrival scene was shot at the same beach as the ending of the first film.
Jason Evers was in _TOS_ "Wink of an Eye."
The head of the Presidential Commission was also Clark's dad in _National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation._
Another Star Trek connection. James Sikking has a small part in the opening sequence (you can see him at 1:21). He would later play Captain Styles in The Search for Spock.
@@BEBruns Thanks for catching that!
Hey, Ollie! I'm glad your back to these! The chimpanzee killed was "Dr. Milo", who somehow managed to recover the Icarus (Taylor's ship), put it back together, and get it off the ground.
10:10 - The guy objecting to "lawfully wedded" was a priest, who objected based on their species.
11:10 - "That's the only thing that does." - Dr. Otto Hasslien (played by soap opera star Eric Braeden). He was referred to back in the first movie during Taylor's monologue at the start of the movie. It was his "theory" about the possibility of "time dilation" causing a ship near the speed of light to pass through time.
15:10 - The word "pet" was used to describe "beautiful women" a very long time ago. Of course, it was a double-sided joke, here. But the reporter wasn't being insulting about it.
15:25 - Freeze frame that. The metal thing that the couple are flinging themselves back and forth on.... I had one of those as a kid, around the same time this movie came out. Thinking back on it, all of the dangerous toys we had back in the 70s, taught us a bit about physics, gravity, and pain, without having to read anything. =D
16:40 - Back then, women would drink while pregnant, smoke while pregnant, and some would even do drugs while pregnant. The first two, if it was "in moderation", it wasn't seen (or known) to be a bad thing. The last one.... yeah, they knew that was bad, but "addicts".
17:13 - Not sure if you noticed, but there is a small continuity error here: Zira says the year on the ship was 3950-something. When Taylor's ship crashed into the lake, it read 3978. I guess they figured with the original movie out of theaters by a few years, and the only time you would ever see it would be on television, it wasn't likely to be spotted. Plus, most people didn't look for those kinds of details.
18:30 - You'll notice, it was also the plot of the movie The Terminator.
25:00 - You forget, apes are a LOT stronger than humans.
25:55 - "She" is Natalie Trundy, who played "Albina" (the blonde mutant) in Beneath the Planet of the Apes. (minor spoiler) Aside from Roddy McDowell, she is the only other person to be in 4 of the 5 movies as different characters.
27:05 - Ollie.... the movie is rated "G", did you really expect to see some ape poontang?
@@IggyStardust1967 The continuity error involving the dates actually goes back to Beneath the POTA. And yeah, back then people weren’t able to watch movies over and over again after they came out. Planet of the Apes wasn’t even shown on television until after the fifth movie had been released. You might also notice that they retconned the origin of the rise of the apes with each movie. For instance, in the first movie, the fact that humans were the dominant species is a deep, dark secret. In Escape, Cornelius claims the ape rebellion was celebrated in their time.
@@BEBruns Apologies, I thought I had mentioned the "Beneath" part of that year discrepancy. Re-reading it, I did not. So that's on me. (But... how DARE you point out something I screwed up on! 😛😁🤣🤣)
Also, you're 100% correct about the "rise" of the apes as the dominant species. I was going to mention that when Ollie does "Conquest", because "spoilers", you know. 😉
Also, we should try to get him to watch the "Project Icarus" short that was released prior to the original Apes movie as part of the "promotional" stuff. Also, I wonder if we can get him to watch "Behind the Planet of the Apes", as well. There's a more recent documentary called "Making Apes", if you haven't seen it. Well worth a watch.
Why does everyone assume its Taylor's ship and not Brent's?!
@@Paul_1971 Because Brent's ship crashed on land, and was beyond flyable. Maybe some parts could be salvageable from it, but the ship itself? No chance.
@@IggyStardust1967 Um...don't you think Brent's would be more salvageable than Taylor's, being totally consumed by water and therefore ruining all the electrics?
If you actually bother to look closely enough all of Brent's nosecone was intact, exactly what the 3 in Escape From turned up in.
I saw this in the theater when I was a little kid. When the baby gets shot to death at the end was so disturbing!
Originally the apes were to be ripped apart by Dobermans.
Eric Braeden who played Dr. Hasslein survived the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff as a child. A disaster with greater loss of life than Titanic in the closing days of WW II. He was among thousands being evacuated from East Prussia ahead of the advancing Red Army. Probably intentionally ironic he discusses murdering WW II mustache guy 🥸 in this film. He later played John Jacob Aster in Titanic. He was in an often overlooked AI thriller before this film called Colossus: The Forbin Project. It is gaining new fans now with AI becoming a reality.
I can't believe anybody even remembers Colossus the Forbin Project! I love that movie, but people I mention it to never have any idea what it is.
The reason the "Church" representative objected so loudly was because of the position the Church took on marriage at the time. This was a time before marriage equality. Gay marriage was not a thing. In some places (in the USA) interracial marriage had only recently been "legalized". Marriage among chimpanzees? That was territory the Church wouldn't even have considered, never mind the fact that these were sentient beings with high levels of understanding and social order.
You can marry apes now? 😄
Since they were only engaged in the first movie, but married in the third *and* second movie, guess who presided over their marriage. Also notice: they were to be prosecuted, at the end of the first movie, despite the assurance originally given to them that they wouldn't be ... but were free in the second movie. Guess who exonerated the two.
Technically this is a more accurate adaptation of the original novel. Ape society was more modern, the main human character was treated like a celebrity until he had to go on the run when it turned out his female companion was pregnant.
It’s been suggested Milo was killed off early because his actor Sal Mineo suffered panic attacks from the clautrophobic make up he was brand new to and wanted to be written out. Although apparently a script written before his casting did have the early death scene
Hasslein was vaguely mentioned in the first two movies. It was his theory of time dilation they were testing out
That guy was upset at them being married because he’s a priest. Legally married animals?! Blasphemy!
“The movie can’t just drop something like that so casually” Try watching the trailer. Old trailers basically used to gove away the whole movie 😂
This may have been the earliest, if not one of the earliest, instances of a piece of media having the baby Hitler suggestion
Oh my god! Someone shot that orderly at the exact same time Cornelius attacked him! 😂
Yeah, Stevie’s actress Natalie Trundy is in all the sequels probably beacause she was the wife of producer Arthur P Jacobs. She played the lead female mutant Albina in Beneath.
Yup, a baby gets shot in this movie! Ain’t that some shit?!
This is one of the fan favorites of the sequels. It seems it is for most people
Milo is gonna be named differently in the next film. They don’t explain why, though presumably because it connects back to his namesake Dr Milo, which would give him away as the true child of Zira and Cornelius
Can’t wait for your reactions to the next two, especially Conquest
In the next movie, the ape child is renamed to hide his true identity, as Milo was one of the intelligent apes.
I should have known someone would mention this as more accurate to the novel. Although sometimes I wondered if I was the only one to think that.
It’s pretty self explanatory why his name is different in the next one. Zira and Cornelius told the commission Dr Milo’s name so Armando changes baby Milo’s name so no one can make a connection between the baby and his parents.
@@residentfan1521 i mean I’ve long headcanoned basically this, but I rarely if ever hear it from anyone. Pretty much everyone says there’s no reason for it or they mistake a certain scene as the establishment of the new name. I don’t think Dr Milo is even alluded to in Conquest. If that was truly the reasoning, I would think they’d address it
@@jonmercano1138 it’s truly the reasoning. That’s the definition of self explanatory. It doesn’t need to be explained because the writers trust the audience to be smart and fill in the blanks themselves.
Hey, glad to see that you watched the third movie. This is a stepping stone movie and very important to show us how the apes were able to come/go back in time. And with the baby going on to live is the most important scene. The budget for this movie is probably the lowest of them all. There is only three apes so the make-up budget was extremely low. Also, it took place in modern day so there was no money spent on lavish primitive ape village sets and such. Also, they were able to use the original spaceship so there was no cost there either. This movie "series" is not really meant to be an action theme but a mentally stimulating SCI-FI series. You will enjoy the next two movies and I look forward to your reaction. Thanks for watching these movies.
15:00 when that music was playing I almost expected Zira to throw a hat in the air to the lyrics "you're gonna make it after all"... 😅
I love your reactions to this franchise, please don't stop because this part was a bit calmer, I can also promise you there will be more action in the next parts and you will also like the endings a lot more, especially the end of the last part will show you why it's worth watching all parts to the end.
An okay movie, better than the 2nd. So they found the ship, recovered it, repaired it, then figured out how to fly it. Okay.
Each movie was a standalone with no future contracts and many years between. OPoTA-2 was great, but in a more planned franchise they'd have hinted the apes could have survived.
Heston’s crew didn’t have space suits like these. The premise is pretty ridiculous but I don’t care. I love when they take off their helmets, to me an iconic scene.
Also it’s a sweetly made movie with a fun premise. (Until it goes south.)
Oh sure, Zira kissing a human is gross to Ollie, but I'll guarantee you 💯% he lets Huxley kiss his face. He's a doggy daddy.
Oh you know it. I guess I have double standards!
They were treated like royalty by the humans compared to the way the apes treated Charleton Heston's character (Taylor) in the first movie. It was horrible and disgraceful the humiliation the apes put Taylor through in the first movie.
I'm glad you are going through the original 5. I saw them all as a young child. For me, Beneath was the least of the bunch. Escape never felt slow in parts for me. You were given a lot of important lore in this movie. Without giving spoilers, it becomes increasingly important to remember the lore as that lore is revealed. Your questions will be answered in time.
Dude.. you are SO ADORABLE!! LOVE your new apt AND your cool haircut!
Yay! Finally!
Natalie Trundy (Stevie) also played the radiated woman in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes". Bradford Dillman also played in "Piranha" (1978) - monster movie.
Dillman was also in many, many TV-movies.
She’s in the next two as well
I'm glad you decided to go all-in on these!
I love this movie! And I don't care if you don't, I care that you reacted to it! You don't have to like every movie, and your fair assessment is all I am here for, even when it's a so-so or negative review. Stay awesome
Victor Newman = The Young & The Restless
Who else remembers the character?
Also _Titanic._
And The Rat Patrol!
Great video! You should watch the 1967 series The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan
I do agree that this installment lacks the energy of the other two, but it's a necessary bridge, has interesting ideas, and of course, features the one, the only Ricardo Montalban, yes, Kahn! Hopefully you'll see more movies that feature him.
This is the installment of the franchise that I consider the most fun episode. Think of it like Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. (No, the next one is not an equivalent to The Wrath of Khan. More like the Wrath of Armando.)
Thanks Olly, for coming back to review this movie. As always, I enjoyed your review, bro. You made some good points and I learned from your review. Agreed with a lot and liked the movie slightly more. I would like to point out that this movie also had a lot to do with power, the structure of power, compliance, defiance and compliance deception. I saw them a longtime ago but believe you will like the next more.
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Not many people do the sequels, keep going!... If you have the Blu-Ray, Conquest (#4) has the original PG theatrical version and an R-Rated Director's Cut with a different ending!...Battle (#5) also has a Director's Cut...
You would have to be a child of the 70's to appreciate the apes showing up in then-contemporary times. It was a lot of fun, and not tedious at all.
This was my favorite of the series as a kid .
Hey Ollie, I suggest that you get a Apes movie playlist.
Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍
He hasn't found time to make his own playlists here or on patreon but it all works with tags for those who can tag.
Ah yes I should do that!
The 3rd and 4th have less fantasy (more contemporary) and have quite conventional villains, some Americans seen to like that but I prefer the fantasy.
This and conquest are very good but the next one is really really good.
I've seen all the five original Apes movies, but there's only three I've seen more than once (far more, if I'm honest about it). The first, this one and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. Without meaning to spoil anything, there are a fair number of references and similarities between Conquest and Rise. I think you're going to be shocked when you see it.
I rate this one below Conquest, because Conquest has a superior main character (also played by Roddy MncDowall) and I’m not a fan of the contemporary setting. Battle has its own charm but is more like a tv movie.
Am still undecided whether this is the best of the Sequels or Number 4.
4 is best
I largely agree with your review. However, had you not known about the time travel element, I believe your reaction to the film would be different.
Natalie trundy is back,but with no mental powers. Taylor mentions Dr. Hesline in the beginning of the original movie.
The next one "Conquest" is 2nd favorite of the entire franchise (new and old)
This is my favorite movie in the series. I can't wait for you to watch the next one. Where you are thinking about the newer timeline while watching these, I was thinking about the originals while watching the newer ones.
If you can get a copy of the unedited version of Conquest I'd recommend it, it's more gruesome 🙂
i love this one. #4 is the best.
I love the movie but knowing that bummer of an ending prevents me from rewatching.
My memory is in several respects this is closer to the original Pierre Boulle novel than any of the adaptations, I mean if you switch the species. In the book a Frenchman lands on a space age civilization run by apes and gains some celebrity. He impregnates fellow human Nova and has to escape by space ship. It has a bit more of a darkly humorous tone, as this movie has at points, then most adaptations.
Granted being closer is a bit of a mixed bag. "Planet of the Apes" is an odd novel in that it's been adapted like a dozen times but has never had a close adaptation to my knowledge. And there is some reason for that. On balance I'd say the Heston film, and maybe even the more modern Serkis film which I actually don't like as much, kind of work better than the book. The book's explanation for things feels a bit weirder or more implausible and there's a certain distance to the story which I didn't precisely mind but might be distracting in film. Still I do wish some version would keep the idea you have to learn the ape, or human in this case, language. "Rise", the Serkis one, I guess does a little but the process of learning a language isn't as much a thing. And also I kind of wish one would have the human be French.
On watching your reaction I realize they may have made a fairly big change. In the original movie the idea humans were ever intelligent was kept secret. Although this is a reaction so maybe Cornelius and Zira say they got a hold of "secret scrolls" they discusses what really happened with humans but I missed that.
ALL of them were good and Linda Harrison was EXQUISITE even though she was gone by the time of this one...
Please watch ''A Matter Of Life And Death'' 1946!
This is one of my least favorite. Looking forward to your reaction to "Battle of the Planet of the Apes".
In 1978, four of the Apres films were played at a local cinema,.....for a children's film fest. Two a day. These are not children's films! Yet, Mom got tickets for my brother and I. The next film, was not, not part of this showing, it's more controversial - you will understand! When the blu-ray, some of the films have had parts restored for violence, as an alternative. The Modern set have been a good exploration of this world,....the TV series, in the mid-60's, it what it is.
It's one of the bleakest film series out there.
1st - Man is tortured and ends up learning humanity destroyed itself.
2nd - Everyone dies and the Universe is indifferent. (One of the bleakest movie endings ever.)
3rd - A bit lighter at first, but in the end all three of the Apes die and baby chimpanzee gets shot to death.
4 and 5 - Not watched by him yet.
@@ThomasReeves-s7u Right, allow children to see films, as most were rated G" - why PG-13 was started in mid'80's, and NC-17!
Of course youth like myself would pay to see a "youth" film, and then go into the other cinema of the multiplex to see a Stephen King horror, or "the Road Warrior" when I was 13 years. I'm not too messed-up at 55 years! Yet, my Brother, and friends agree that seeing some entertainment, at a certain age can change your life.
@@jonathanmurphy3141 I think I saw them as a kid too. But the second one kind of freaked me out I believe.
The spaceship prop is ridiculously too small.
I can’t wait till you watch conquest of the planet of the apes.
The things that made this movie charming at the time (social criticism as fish-out-of-water) play as dreary and mild today. You can still sense the cast deserved better. Wish Sal Mineo had stuck around longer or played other apes too. He and McDowell must have had some gay stories. It's more a string of hopeful one-offs than a planned franchise at this point.
Y&R fans will notice the enemy. Mr. Forbin Project.
Yeah its just unfortunate that I am watching this movie after having seen soooo many fish out of water stories!
8:52 fun fact that character was briefly mentioned in the first movie.
Thanks to Oliver and Huxley! 🦧 This is my second favorite of the old ones. It sets up what's known as a *bootstrap* *paradox* as how things devolved. As you know, the new ones use a different rationale, but keep some of the important hallmarks.